Look at my films: they’ve been very critical of the police, but on the
other hand I’m never going to say all police are corrupt, that all
police hate people of colour. I’m not going to say that. I mean, we
need police. Unfortunately, police in a lot of instances have not
upheld the law; they have broken the law. But I’d also like to say,
sir, that black people are not a monolithic group. I have had black
people say, ‘How can a bourgeois person like Spike Lee do Malcolm X?

Lee went on to discuss his aversion to engaging in public discussions over his work: “Now when I get a hint that this stuff is maybe going to dilute the message of my film, I know it is not going to do me any good to comment,” he said. Read the full story at The Times.

BlacKkKlansman is based on a true story of the former police officer Ron Stallworth, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the ’70s. Its closing credits notably include a rare Prince recording, which also featured in a new extended trailer for the film.